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ZearothK posted:Is Wolcen going to increase in price once it is out of Early Access? I'm just now hearing about this game, is it any good? How does it compare to the other suspects?
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Feb 12, 2020 01:09
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no one knows if its any good since only the first act of the game is playable
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Feb 12, 2020 01:14
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People have been talking about it off and on if you wanna read back but the main thoughts seem to be that the combat is good, it has some good ideas on the ARPG formula but it might also have some potential pain points like respecs or other QoL. People who have it will know more soon with the release patch.
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Feb 12, 2020 01:17
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Mordja posted:You know, videogames really need to do better with the whole "woe is me, I've lost my humanity by gaining these sick magic powers and edgy body-mods" and just loving go all out. I'm talking real body-horror and/or mental dissolution stuff. I would 100% buy a Prophet Revival game no matter how terrible it was. E: Well, poo poo Stickman fucked around with this message at 01:35 on Feb 12, 2020 |
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Feb 12, 2020 01:24
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Can't stop seeing the name "Wolcen" without immediately translating it as some weird reddit sex thing
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Feb 12, 2020 01:30
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Alright you jerks I'm doing it. I'm giving Prey a chance. Started it once before but fell off 30 minutes in.
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Feb 12, 2020 01:33
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Orv posted:People have been talking about it off and on if you wanna read back but the main thoughts seem to be that the combat is good, it has some good ideas on the ARPG formula but it might also have some potential pain points like respecs or other QoL. People who have it will know more soon with the release patch. Ah got it, I guess I missed or skimmed when it was brought up before. Maybe I'll pick it up for pre-release price and sit on it for a bit for release-patch and refund it if it seems like a mess.
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Feb 12, 2020 01:41
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Xaris posted:Ah got it, I guess I missed or skimmed when it was brought up before. Maybe I'll pick it up for pre-release price and sit on it for a bit for release-patch and refund it if it seems like a mess. Check when the dates for that are, since the refund window is two weeks, just to be sure.
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Feb 12, 2020 01:42
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Orv posted:Check when the dates for that are, since the refund window is two weeks, just to be sure. Steam says Release Feb 13th, or Thursday, so yeah not far off. e: Went ahead and grabbed it because $15 savings is substantial, and so I don't forget. I'll check into it Friday and refund it if it's still a mess adn check back in a year from now. i do have ARPG cravings rn but everything else I've already played too much. Xaris fucked around with this message at 02:05 on Feb 12, 2020 |
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Feb 12, 2020 01:48
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PantsBandit posted:Alright you jerks I'm doing it. I'm giving Prey a chance. The game will tell you there's a cost to using Typhon powers. The cost is almost 0. Those powers are cool, and you're cheating yourself if you don't use them. Also, try not to shoot any glass floors; the game remembers certain types of damage, so that glass will be permanently cracked, even if you leave that zone and come back. Otherwise, play blind.
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Feb 12, 2020 01:50
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Volte posted:Is there going to be a massive patch for the Wolcen release or something, because I bought it last week and there are literally "insert cinematic here" title cards, and you can't open the map overlay in the overworld because apparently that hasn't been implemented yet? It feels more like an alpha than something that's going into final release the day after tomorrow. I'd like to know this as well; I've been eyeing it for a bit and would like to buy it before the price goes up, but if it's gonna be one of those "It's not EA (but it totally is)" launches where you have to wait a year to get the full thing I'm gonna be pissed.
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Feb 12, 2020 01:56
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Edmond Dantes posted:I'd like to know this as well; I've been eyeing it for a bit and would like to buy it before the price goes up, but if it's gonna be one of those "It's not EA (but it totally is)" launches where you have to wait a year to get the full thing I'm gonna be pissed. Well, you could look at their Trello page if you wanted to get in depth - https://trello.com/b/OtdXj2DH/beta-roadmap-game-advancement - It seems to me that they have 3 acts done and that is what seems to be planned for release. The first act is like 4 hours long or so, so like 12 hours of narrative, then some post game stuff. I've watched a couple of recent streams of it and it looks much better than it did just a few months ago, but it's still a big question whether the release will be good or not. It seems like they have a full game based on their roadmap, but who knows?
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Feb 12, 2020 02:02
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Krazyface posted:The game will tell you there's a cost to using Typhon powers. The cost is almost 0. Those powers are cool, and you're cheating yourself if you don't use them. Yeah Arkane has a tendency to put in paths that use fewer abilities with no real gameplay payoff. I always just use everything I can my first playthrough.
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Feb 12, 2020 02:11
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Look Sir Droids posted:Since CK2 went F2P a while back and Paradox gave away one of the Goon-approved DLCs for signing up for the CK3 newsletter, I'm getting the itch to try out my first Paradox game. Are all of their games relatively the same except Europa Universalis is colonial times, Hearts of Iron is WW2 era, and Stellaris is space sci-fi? What are the major differences and is your enjoyment largely going to depend on what era you find more interesting? So. Kinda no to a lot of these questions. Each game is fairly different. CK2 is a character driven almost visual novel with light mappaint. EU4 is a wargame entirely built around conquest/diplomacy. Stellaris is a pretty traditional 4x. HoI4 is almost survival horror/RTS as you know what's about to happen, and need to prep for it. Liking the time period helps a lot, yes. Easiest to get into is technically Ck2 if you understand you don't need to conquer to win. If you try it's one of the harder ones. Next easiest is probably HoI4, followed by Stellaris. Eu4 is the hardest, and also the most grognardy.
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Feb 12, 2020 02:27
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Is Lords of the Fallen worth grabbing on deep discount? I keep hearing it described as an absurdly eurojank-y souls ripoff, but I'm unclear whether that means flawed-but-fun janky, or deadly premonition janky.
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Feb 12, 2020 02:47
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Ghostlight posted:One of the devs had like facebook connections to a local group of nationalists, and their second game was a turret simulator which they specifically said was in response to 'things happening in the world right now' where you defended "Europe" against waves of ISIS invaders. Which also has white nationalism referencing achievements and went on a celebratory sale for Hitler's birthday...
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Feb 12, 2020 02:47
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Omi no Kami posted:Is Lords of the Fallen worth grabbing on deep discount? I keep hearing it described as an absurdly eurojank-y souls ripoff, but I'm unclear whether that means flawed-but-fun janky, or deadly premonition janky. Flawed-but-not-fun. It has some ideas and bits and pieces of it are good but by and large it is one of those Souls-like made by people who are fans of Souls but do not understand the actual design principles of Souls. They've since done much better in Surge 2 but LotF is entirely skippable.
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Feb 12, 2020 02:56
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Wolcen's currently the number one selling game on Steam, which I assume means some streamer was given it early, because that's apparently how things work these days, so if you can find that you might be able to see how it's looking? E: Speaking of, here's their launch trailer fwiw, which I assume shows stuff from later acts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mreqjgIJVxA Mordja fucked around with this message at 03:07 on Feb 12, 2020 |
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Feb 12, 2020 03:03
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Orv posted:Flawed-but-not-fun. Cool, thanks- good to know I'm not missing anything! 
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Feb 12, 2020 03:03
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all the streamers ive seen have been playing the act 1 only early access version
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Feb 12, 2020 03:04
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Wolcen has been sitting on my wish list for years... Oh what's that? I bought it in 2018 and forgot? Guess it's time to finally play it!
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Feb 12, 2020 03:21
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Omi no Kami posted:Cool, thanks- good to know I'm not missing anything! And I'll challenge him and say it's totally fine. It's absurdly easy, but it's got the atmosphere and setup you want from a Souls. I enjoyed it for the 24 hours or so it took to beat it, and even went back a second time. It's got some neat mechanics like beating bosses in certain harder ways gets you better loot. Is it the next Souls? No, but people weirdly tell people never to touch it when it's fine. If you like Souls it's another one of those games for pretty cheap.
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Feb 12, 2020 03:40
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I think LotF got a lot more poo poo than it deserved when it came out as basically the first Souls clone out of the gate but now that others have come out and are actually good it's not worth playing.
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Feb 12, 2020 03:44
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Orv posted:I think LotF got a lot more poo poo than it deserved when it came out as basically the first Souls clone out of the gate but now that others have come out and are actually good it's not worth playing. But it should be noted that unlike some devs (see, the Souls team themselves), every single time those dudes gently caress up, they learn in the next release. Go look at LOTF vs The Surge 1 sometime and realize "oh poo poo, wow"
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Feb 12, 2020 04:04
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if you have a backlog of actually good games, lords of the fallen simply is not worth the time.
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Feb 12, 2020 04:53
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Awesome! posted:if you have a backlog of actually good games, lords of the fallen simply is not worth the time. On the subject of backlogs and good games, I've never heard a bad word about Okami and it seems like a great deal for $10.
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Feb 12, 2020 06:16
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Division 2 is an amazing game you can get for 3 dollars. I spent this many hours on it  Get it.
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Feb 12, 2020 06:22
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pentyne posted:On the subject of backlogs and good games, I've never heard a bad word about Okami and it seems like a great deal for $10. It's also one of this month's Humble games, so there should be plenty of cheap keys around or check to see if you want two of the other games for +$5 (or 8 for +$10).
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Feb 12, 2020 06:22
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pentyne posted:On the subject of backlogs and good games, I've never heard a bad word about Okami and it seems like a great deal for $10. If you're a completionist some of the endgame sidequests will frustrate you pretty badly. That's the worst I've got.
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Feb 12, 2020 06:23
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Morter posted:Division 2 is an amazing game you can get for 3 dollars. where's this gone since launch, anyway? i beat the main campaign or whatever shortly after launch then lost interest shortly after the invasion stuff popped up
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Feb 12, 2020 06:25
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Uplay must be getting hammered, I can't even download the installer.
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Feb 12, 2020 06:31
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Ciaphas posted:where's this gone since launch, anyway? i beat the main campaign or whatever shortly after launch then lost interest shortly after the invasion stuff popped up World Tier 5, recalibrations, targeted loot. A lot of stuff. Too much to list. And they're making it a lot better next month--even if you don't get the expansion.
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Feb 12, 2020 06:36
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pentyne posted:On the subject of backlogs and good games, I've never heard a bad word about Okami and it seems like a great deal for $10. I've bought Okami like five times and never regretted it. It's the best Zelda game not made by Nintendo.
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Feb 12, 2020 06:37
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The main campaign and sidequests of Division 2 are like 35-45 hours of very solid RPG shooter gameplay after which if you have absolutely no interest in any kind of the MP aspects you can totally drop the game without any real loss. Especially as a co-op game for up to 4 it's a solid piece of stuff for $3.
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Feb 12, 2020 06:37
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As frustrating as Steam can be, nothing like getting a game on another storefront to help realize how much they get right. Division 2 is downloading at an okay rate (10MB/s, ETA about an hour) but all the rest of my internet slows to a crawl while doing so. Steam must run their DLs at a low priority, because I can install things on there and not even notice a bump in whatever browsing I'm doing. I had to pause the Uplay DL just to post this.
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Feb 12, 2020 07:49
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Hmm. Maybe I don't need to buy The Division 2. You almost had me, Ubisoft.
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Feb 12, 2020 07:53
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Void Destroyer 2 has been out for a few days. Is anyone playing? It's a cel-shaded pocket-sized space sim. https://store.steampowered.com/app/369530/Void_Destroyer_2/
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Feb 12, 2020 07:54
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People weren't joking about how bad the voice acting in Operencia: The Stolen Sun is. Really fun game so far, has a few neat convenience features that I wish more games did, but woo man. It's not quite Chaos Wars bad, but it's close.
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Feb 12, 2020 10:59
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Bruceski posted:As frustrating as Steam can be, nothing like getting a game on another storefront to help realize how much they get right. Division 2 is downloading at an okay rate (10MB/s, ETA about an hour) but all the rest of my internet slows to a crawl while doing so. Steam must run their DLs at a low priority, because I can install things on there and not even notice a bump in whatever browsing I'm doing. I had to pause the Uplay DL just to post this. Steam hogs my line completely unless I limit it. And at least according to Steam it's utilizing the last bit of the line while EGS f.e. is always ~1Mbit below absolute max.
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